Chapter Summaries

Fate Throat returned to the Fate Race with the power to recruit its members as Players, offering them freedom from the Equivalent Gamble and a new home on Dream Island. The Great Fate Lord stepped down, and Fate Throat was unanimously elected to lead the race into its new future.

• Fate Throat told the Fate Race leaders that he could recruit willing members as Players without requiring them to pay a price, and the Great Fate Lord examined him and confirmed his transformed body and fused rules.
• Fate Throat named Dream Island as the Fate Race's new home and set the first recruitment allocation at ten million slots, with the lineages to determine how they were distributed.
• The Great Fate Lord privately asked Fate Throat to succeed him, and Fate Throat accepted responsibility for leading the Fate Race.
• The Fate Race's lineages unanimously approved Fate Throat as the next Great Fate Lord, and the old Great Fate Lord transferred the equivalent exchange rule origin to him.

Tu Hu defeated the Soulcleaving Tribe’s Divine Realm guardian after a battle lasting more than thirty days, then worried that the Velvet Spirit Tribe remained vulnerable to stronger enemies. A hidden mission appeared, allowing him to recruit Velvet Spirit Tribe members into the Player Faction, and he celebrated the chance to strengthen his people.

• Xingtong told Tu Hu that the Velvet Spirit Tribe had found a valuable Spirit Ore deposit but that an unknown underground Civilization had wiped out their Robot scouts.
• Tu Hu descended into the mines, identified the underground Civilization as the Soulcleaving Tribe, and fought through its troops with the Sword of Civilization.
• The Soulcleaving Tribe’s Divine Realm guardian confronted Tu Hu, who relied on defense and outlasted its Soul Power over more than thirty days before killing it.
• Tu Hu reflected that his victory depended on his opponent being unable to break through his defense and feared the Velvet Spirit Tribe might face an enemy he could not defeat.
• A hidden Recruitment mission prompted Tu Hu to spend Sacrificial Power to bring Velvet Spirit Tribe members into the Player Faction, and he thanked Sacrifice Emperor Zhao in delight.

After Dragonkin survived the Dragonwing Race’s first breakthrough to the Demigod Realm, Ji Chen tested the gulf between their powers and reassured him that they were brothers despite their growing disparity. As Ji Chen worried about the Dragonwing Race’s vulnerable future, a hidden recruitment quest appeared.

• After a battle, Dragonkin dismissed Ji Chen’s concerns about his injuries and celebrated the Dragonwing Race’s victory and spoils.
• Dragonkin entered a furnace to undergo the Molten Body Ascension, endured the painful transformation, and emerged as a demigod.
• Ji Chen healed Dragonkin and explained that the breakthrough method had been an uncertain gamble based on his research.
• Dragonkin challenged Ji Chen, but Ji Chen used his Binding trait to demonstrate how completely rule authority overwhelmed Dragonkin’s new power.
• Ji Chen told Dragonkin that they were brothers and promised to protect him and the Dragonwing Race; Dragonkin left to celebrate.
• Ji Chen reflected on the Dragonwing Race’s weakness in Monster World, then received a prompt announcing the hidden quest Recruitment.

After devouring Si Xie and claiming a twelfth supreme origin, the Lord of Rot rallied the Dark Tide Demon Gods to renew the Cataclysm War in ten thousand years while seeking greater strength in the Monster World. Qi Sheng then reviewed the recruitment drive and prepared a new tournament featuring a craftsmanship ranking.

• The Lord of Rot overcame Si Xie's resistance, absorbed the Black City's origin of completion, and gained his twelfth supreme origin.
• The Lord of Rot summoned the Dark Tide Demon Gods through the Great Evil Moon and asked them to return to the Monster World for a renewed Cataclysm War in ten thousand years.
• The Lord of Rot returned to the Monster World to search for the origins of fallen Demon Gods and grow strong enough to face the mysterious observer.
• Qi Sheng reviewed Guide's recruitment list, which included six core targets and 219 selected civilizations granted recruitment permissions.
• Qi Sheng decided to hold a new Recruitment Tournament with a Craftsmanship Points Ranking for logistics civilizations.

The new ranking event triggered a recruitment rush, and rookie support player Xiao Fu sold a level 3 redfire maple before meeting a quiet player who planned to make rafts. Xiao Fu offered to team up and buy him a hoverboard, but the boy revealed a sacrificial power balance of -2,983,459, leaving Xiao Fu stunned.

• A new recruitment and ranking event barred newly recruited players from outside support, prompting the Against the Tide Legion and other factions to recruit more support personnel.
• Xiao Fu found a level 3 redfire maple at Saihong Ridge and sold it for 5,124 points of sacrificial power.
• Xiao Fu met Minor World Heavenly Dao Who Loves Writing Stories making a raft, helped him finish it, and shared food and advice about earning sacrificial power.
• Xiao Fu invited the boy to team up and offered to buy him a hoverboard, but the boy showed him his player panel and revealed a balance of -2,983,459 sacrificial power.

Shuyan and Xiao Fu spent five years working and traveling together while saving sacrificial power to clear Shuyan’s debt. On their fifth anniversary, Xiao Fu transferred the full three million, freeing Shuyan and leaving him overwhelmed by his friend’s generosity.

• Shuyan told Xiao Fu that his initial life souls had been deducted to offset his debt, leaving him without a foundation for combat growth.
• Xiao Fu proposed that they make and sell handicrafts together, and Shuyan agreed to let Xiao Fu hold their earnings so they could save toward the debt.
• Over the next two years, Shuyan and Xiao Fu made rafts and explored other support trades, then began mining while gradually strengthening their bodies through hard labor.
• During three more years of travel and work, Shuyan grew accustomed to Xiao Fu as a friend and shared memories across many spatial nodes.
• On the fifth anniversary of their meeting, Xiao Fu gave Shuyan a battle axe and transferred him three million sacrificial power, clearing his debt.
• Shuyan froze as Xiao Fu congratulated him on being free, overwhelmed by the sacrifice Xiao Fu had made.

After ten years of traveling together, Shuyan and Xiao Fu explored the Outer Sea Ancient Ruins and agreed to pursue combat and logistics growth side by side. Three years later, Shuyan regained his Heavenly Dao rules, created a living story, and comprehended the top-tier might rule Unnamed, leaving Xiao Fu rushing over to demand an explanation.

• Shuyan reassured Xiao Fu that he was not a burden and chose to explore the ancient ruins with him instead of racing alone for the rankings.
• Shuyan and Xiao Fu worked together to clear the Outer Sea Ancient Ruins and found a treasury full of high-tier spirit crystals.
• They agreed to invest part of their fortune in Xiao Fu's logistics research while Shuyan pursued combat advancement, and they planned to climb the rankings together.
• Three years later, Shuyan used one billion sacrificial power to regain the rules Wield, Pen, and Book, then wrote a story whose characters developed their own wills and continued the plot without him.
• Shuyan comprehended the top-tier might rule Unnamed, prompting an all-channel notification and Xiao Fu to hurry over and ask what had happened.

After naming his new Might heart-origin world evolution, Shuyan developed a plan to let his story worlds evolve freely and send their civilizations into the Monster World, where they could grow and provide resources. He and Xiao Fu discussed the risks, safeguards, and sacrificial returns of the system, leaving Xiao Fu trying to retract his criticism after Shuyan threatened to cancel his promised story civilization.

• Shuyan named his new Might heart-origin world evolution, while players on the Forum speculated about the announcement and his identity.
• Three days later, Shuyan explained to Xiao Fu that his story world’s growth had stalled because it had run out of ink power.
• Shuyan proposed sending story civilizations into the Monster World to explore and wage war, creating a self-sustaining source of ink power and resources.
• Shuyan said he could erase civilizations that went out of control and use the player resurrection system to keep their stories and core characters from ending permanently.
• Shuyan described building a faith system and processing sacrifices through the Trading House, the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, and offerings to Emperor Zhao God.
• When Xiao Fu called him a ruthless middleman, Shuyan threatened to cancel the story civilization he had planned for Xiao Fu, prompting Xiao Fu to apologize.

After thirty years together on Saihong Ridge, Xiao Fu urged Shuyan to pursue the rankings, and Shuyan left to lead civilizations he had created through a long campaign. Two hundred and seventy years later, Shuyan returned as the top-ranked Player and reunited with Xiao Fu, who had climbed to 12,472th on the Artistry Rankings.

• Shuyan watched the Logistics Spring Clan celebrate its first great harvest and shared its anniversary feast with Xiao Fu.
• Xiao Fu encouraged Shuyan to leave Saihong Ridge and pursue the summit, and Shuyan agreed before departing at dawn.
• Shuyan rose through the rankings using a command build, leading dozens of civilizations he had created and treating their members as fellow travelers.
• Shuyan and Xiao Fu kept in touch through video calls as Xiao Fu shared news from Saihong Ridge and urged him to come home.
• After 270 years, Shuyan returned as the top-ranked Player, and he and Xiao Fu proudly shared their rankings before slapping palms across the fields.

Qi Sheng uncovered the truth behind the Dark Tide and began restoring Emperor Zhao’s power as the Lord of Rot summoned the Demon Gods to Monster World. The major factions gathered for the Endgame War, which began as the Four Gods, Hun Zhan, and the Players moved to the battlefield.

• Qi Sheng learned that Transcendence was Di Nian Bully, who had reincarnated to escape the Dark Tide System, while the Supreme Master Brain of the Insect Race had inherited his discarded remains and misunderstood his intentions.
• Qi Sheng called back the Emperor Zhao origins scattered across Monster World and began reforging Emperor Zhao’s divine body as the Four Gods and Hun Zhan watched.
• The Lord of Rot raised the Great Evil Moon and summoned the Demon Gods to Monster World.
• The Supreme Master Brain of the Insect Race and Monster World’s other powerful factions appeared, forming a standoff as the Endgame War approached.
• Qi Sheng sent the Four Gods and Hun Zhan to fight and told the Players to support them, while Guide received supreme command of the Player Faction.

The Endgame War began in Monster World as apex civilizations unleashed conceptual powers and the Lord of Rot’s 103 Demon Gods spread the Dark Tide across the world. Guide and the Four Gods coordinated the players into a powerful fighting force, while Qi Sheng absorbed Monster World’s Primordial Power and completed the reconstruction of Emperor Zhao’s Body, revealing a long-buried truth.

• The Lord of Rot led 103 Demon Gods in forming the Dark Tide array, which blocked spatial escapes and began devouring Monster World’s civilizations.
• The Dark Tide overwhelmed the Darkfeather Race, the Illusory Cosmos Civilization, and the Myriad Forms God Race, then broke through the Stillness civilization’s Stasis Domain.
• The Fate Race, Insect Race, Primordial Ancient Race, Dulan Civilization, Void Civilization, Temporal Sequence Civilization, and Civilization Observers deployed their conceptual powers across the battlefield.
• Guide coordinated the players, while Yan Ming, Nine Yin, Ultra-Dimensional, and Hun Zhan supported their movement, protection, energy, and combat growth.
• The players fought across multiple battlefields, where even several Demon Gods could not suppress them, and ten Civilization factions with the Resurrection Sustain trait joined the conflict.
• Qi Sheng absorbed all the Primordial Power in Monster World and completed the reconstruction of Emperor Zhao’s Body, revealing a long-buried truth.

Qi Sheng uncovered the ancient contest between Emperor Zhao and the four supreme chaos gods, learning that he was Emperor Zhao reincarnated and that the gods had restarted their game across five worlds. He turned back to Monster World's conflicts, knowing the ultimate contest was coming and that he needed to prepare.

• Qi Sheng witnessed Emperor Zhao dissolve himself into origin light, which seeded Monster World with primordial beings, resources, and rule nodes.
• The Dark Tide God and the Insect God, Yan Gu, and Entropy God traced Emperor Zhao's reincarnation to an azure planet and agreed to restart their contest from equal beginnings.
• The four chaos gods created new worlds, dissolved their origins to nurture them, and planted a directive to guide the reincarnated Emperor Zhao back to the game.
• Qi Sheng realized he was Emperor Zhao reincarnated and that the four gods had compelled him to return for a future contest among five worlds.
• Qi Sheng looked over Monster World's ongoing conflicts and resolved to use the time before the game began to prepare for the four gods.

The Player Faction defeated the Dark Tide after Qi Sheng intervened, then he reshaped the fallen powers into seeds for future worlds and conflicts. Ten million years later, Qi Sheng summoned the players and the reincarnation-born protagonists to enter a new game of chaos.

• The Dark Tide formation collapsed under the peak powers’ attacks, and Bully, the Lord of Rot, and the remaining Dark Tide forces were destroyed.
• The Great Evil Moon gathered the Dark Tide’s supreme origins and remains to rebuild the Di Nian Evil Spirit’s divine body, but Qi Sheng supplied it with consciousness and cast it into chaos to begin nurturing a new world.
• Qi Sheng blessed the players with overwhelming power, and they swept the battlefield clean within three days.
• Qi Sheng sent the fallen powers’ supreme origins into Earth Reincarnation Space, strengthening it and setting the stage for future protagonists to oppose the Lord of Rot’s clone.
• Ten million years later, Qi Sheng summoned the players into a new game of chaos and called upon Earth’s reincarnation-born protagonists to aid him.